Subject: Re: IEEE 1394 isochronous transmission code will be removed.
To: HAYAKAWA Koichi <haya@netbsd.org>
From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/11/2003 11:38:40
If there are no plans for developing a new one, then leave the existing
as-is. Removing even semi-working code because it's not perfect isn't a
good idea as it then prevents other people from possibly improving it later.

James

>
>From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
>Subject: Re: IEEE 1394 isochronous transmission code will be removed.
>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 00:33:07 -0400 (EDT)
>Message-ID: <200306090433.AAA14016@chacons.net>
>
> > Why not leave it there for now and then insert a new model later? If it's
> > incomplete today folks should be able to experiment with it rather than have
> > it yanked out...
> > 
> > James
>
>Yes, you are right.  But it is imcomplete and modelled not
>very good...
>
>I want to know whether anyone working on it.  If it has been
>abandoned and there are no plan of using it, I want to
>remove it in the future, regardless of development of new
>driver.
>
>Right now I have no plan of developing new iso transmission
>driver.  So I'm expecting other programmers will work on
>this issue;-)
>-- 
>KH
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